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gryp

Fri, Nov 26 2004, 9:40 am

I dont have the exact link, but yad vashem has a new database to search for relatives who were murdered in the Holocaust. Tons of people have been on in its first week, and im hearing stories of people finding relatives they never knew existed who died. they know theyre related from their names, parents' names, and town they come from. I think they even have pictures and information about each person. im not sure if this is for all of them but ive seen a few like this.

Pickle Lady

Fri, Nov 26 2004, 9:58 am

Thats amazing. Their lives should not be forgotten. Thanks for the information.

gryp

Fri, Nov 26 2004, 10:54 am

www.yadvashem.org

heres the link, someone found it for me... (thanx)

Motek

Sun, Feb 06 2005, 2:39 pm

wow!

http://www.israelnationalnews......76478

sarahd

Sun, Feb 06 2005, 2:45 pm

It's really sad. I went there a while ago, and found my great-grandmother's name and my mother's uncles and aunts. I knew about them before, but it made their fate that much more real and horrible to me. Crying

gryp

Sun, Feb 06 2005, 3:09 pm

sarahd, ditto for me too.
it makes it much more real for me.
it is very sad.

Tefila

Sun, Feb 06 2005, 4:15 pm

Why should I or anyone go there what will it do for me spiritually I don't mean to be cynical, though I know I am!
But what does it help me both physically and spiritually to know of what could've, shouldv'e been. Now we have to move forward.

gryp

Sun, Feb 06 2005, 4:18 pm

there are many stories of people finding each other from this database also. I just read one today on arutzsheva.

Tefila

Sun, Feb 06 2005, 4:20 pm

Quote:

there are many stories of people finding each other from this database

Thats the nice part.
Ok I know it's me and I know why I think a certain way.....

Pearl

Mon, Feb 07 2005, 6:38 am

thank you, RG and Motek, for the links.
I will spend some time searching the data base. I hardly know anything about our families. My parents participated in the Spielberg/Schindler project, as well as did an aunt of my father who was in Auschwitz, but I couldn't bring myself yet to watch them....
I will ask them for names, so I will be able to search. It's important, I do want to be able to tell my children, and B"H grandchildren, so that their memory will live on

gryp

Mon, Feb 07 2005, 9:10 am

I did a search with the names I could remember off the top of my head. I have to ask my grandparents for specific names, but seeing the huge list of names of just the people who share my relatives last names makes it very real and shocking. it hit me again and again and again as I looked through the pages of names.

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